Ildikó Peller was our speaker on October 13th, when an attentive audience gathered at the Museum to listen to a presentation on the life and times of Elizabeth Szilágyi. Her famous husband and her royal son have defined Elizabeth Szilágyi’s role in Hungarian history, yet she was a remarkable woman in her own right. Mrs. […]
The end of June saw volunteers from the Museum attending the Lake Erie Captains Hungarian Heritage Night at the Ballpark festivities. We have contributed to this great fusion of the American past-time with Magyar culture by manning a face painting table…as the children come by, we decorate their cheeks and arms with Hungarian folk motifs […]
The Museum’s Vintner Committee has been busy preparing for the Annual Vintner Dinner, the main fundraising event for our Cleveland Hungarian Heritage Society and Museum. The wines have been picked ! The menu has been chosen! The musicians have been hired, and the wonderful raffle items are trickling in… So—– Please join us on Saturday […]
The topic of our first presentation for the 2018 Fall series was “Defending the Fort: the Life and Times of Ilona Zrinyi” presented by Eszti Pigniczky, Director of Leadership Development and Training, Hungarian Scouts in Exteris. Ilona Zrinyi was an interesting woman who was born in 1643 and lived in the 17th century during an era of […]
On June 12, 2018, we welcomed Dr. Monika Fodor to the Museum as a special guest speaker. The title of her presentation was My Life, My Story, My Identity: My Slice of Americana. Dr. Fodor served as a Fulbright Scholar at Cleveland State University from the Fall of 2017 through the spring of 2018, and […]
Join us on Saturday, Nov. 10 at 2 o’clock, at the Museum, for our third program in this Fall series: ” The Songs We Hide”, presented by Connie Hampton Connally, Author The author will speak about her research and the resulting book set in the early 1950s in Hungary, a turbulent repressive time […]
For nine months, Bertold Illés came to our Museum four days a week to work on various projects that benefited our organization. In addition, as a Kőrösi Csoma intern, Bertold worked with other Hungarian organizations in the Cleveland area, thereby fulfilling the mission and goal of the Kőrösi Csoma Sándor Program (KCSP), a project directed […]
On Saturday afternoon, May 19th, the Museum hosted the opening of its newest exhibit, Hungarian American Contributions to Science, Mathematics and Business. This exhibit is dedicated to the memory of John Lauer, whose suggestion that this topic be featured in an exhibit at our Museum was the inspiration for our curator, Andrew Lazar, to put […]
In conjunction with the opening of our new exhibit entitled American Hungarian Contributions to Science, Mathematics and Business, members and guests of the Museum enjoyed a truly informative lecture by Mr. Zsolt Dömötörffy, who is himself a mathematician, and who was able to share with his audience many aspects of the world of numbers, symbols and […]
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